The Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are crispy, chewy and soft. They have a ton of delicious flavor due to adding extra vanilla, salt and brown sugar. This is my go-to recipe for cookies!
I could eat all the cookies in the world.
If they’re chocolate chip. Well…I take that back. Cookies are my thang, one of my favorite sweet indulgences and one of my very favorite desserts to make. So yes. I could eat all the cookies in the world.
What’s your favorite sweet treat?
Chocolate chip cookies are easily my favorite, which is why I am so ecstatic about this bakery style chocolate chip cookie recipe!
These are one of my best cookie recipes ever and I have made quite a few!
The BEST! Why? Because they are the perfect size – on a scale from 1-10, 1 being the smallest cookie and 10 be the largest, they’re like a 6 or 7. Not too big but definitely not too small (who wants a small cookie anyway?) They’re crispy on the outside and incredibly chewy and delicious on the inside. The perfect combo for any cookie, right?
And they bake up beautifully – they don’t get flat or stay in a clump, they spread nicely and, and are perfectly chewy.
Ugh, I love these!!
See? I mean check.these.out. I did put the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes or so. I typically chill all of my cookie dough recipes as I find they bake up much nicer that way.
Plus. Chilled cookie dough? Yes please!
Now, if you like a crispier cookie, you could bake these a little longer than I did. I am a sucker for gooey soft cookies so I kept mine just slightly browned on the edges.
Oh what a beautiful a thing. Look at all those chocolate chips! They create mounds of delicious gooey chocolate and give the cookies that bakery style look.
I have to mention – these are amazing warm, with ice cream and FROZEN. Yes, I put some in the freezer and munch on them at night.
Those are the best nights ever.
You HAVE to make these. Please!
SHOP THE RECIPE – HERE ARE SOME ITEMS I USED TO MAKE THIS RECIPE.
Cookie Dough Scoops (set of 3) – I use these all time when baking cookies. My cookies always turn out the same size and it saves a ton of time. They are also great for scooping muffin and cupcake batter as well as ice cream!
Non-stick baking mat – These help cookies not stick to the pan and help minimize trash!
KitchenAid Mixer Artisan Series Mixer – This one is a no brainer. I love my KitchenAid Mixer. It’s simple to use and does a wonderful job of mixing all kinds of doughs, batters, etc.
Nielsen-Masey Pure Vanilla Extract – This vanilla extract is just the best. It will take your flavor to the next level and a little goes a long way.
Silicone Spatulas – These are wonderful for all types of cooking, but I love a good spatula to scrape the bowl while mixing. It’s important to get all the dough incorporated and a strong spatula is the way to do it!
The Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are crispy, chewy and soft. They have a ton of flavor due to adding extra vanilla, salt and brown sugar. This is my go-to recipe for cookies!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled (may need an additional 1/4 cup if dough seems too wet).
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed dark brown sugar (you can use light, but I prefer dark)
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a non-stick silicone baking mat; set aside. (The cookies do require chilling time, so when you are ready to bake, prepare the pan and preheat the oven.)
- In a medium bowl mix together dry ingredients - flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; set aside. To measure flour, spoon it into your measuring cup until it's mounded over then use a straight edge to level it off.
- In a stand-alone mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (hand-held mixer works, too), cream together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until smooth and creamy. Add vanilla extract, and eggs and mix well until dough looks smooth and pale in color, scraping down sides of the bowl as necessary.
- With the mixer on low-speed, slowly add the bowl of dry ingredients and mix just until the dough comes together. Overmixing can cause tough and flat cookies.
- Lastly, stir in the chocolate chips by hand to prevent overmixing.
- Measure 3 tablespoons of dough (a cookie dough scoop is helpful for this) and place on cookie sheet, cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. You can refrigerate overnight or freeze them if you want to bake them later. Chilled dough bakes better. If the dough is too warm, the cookies can flatten out.
- Place 6 chilled cookie dough balls (I do 6 at a time so they don't spread into each other) on the baking sheet and bake for 9-12 minutes (baking time will depend on your oven. Mine bake for 11-12 minutes) until edges are golden and the center is still pale in color.
- If your cookies are flat use this tip! - Place a round cookie dough cutter or glass bowl that's a little larger than the cookie over each just baked cookie and gently swirl it in a circular motion. This allows the edges to be tucked in creating a round cookie that sets up neatly. Cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
It’s common for chocolate chip cookies to turn out flat. Here are a few helpful tips. Do not overmix the dough, just mix enough for it to come together and stir the chocolate chips in by hand. Chill cookie dough so that’s it’s very cold – you can even put it in the freezer to chill even further – if the dough is room temperature or warm, it will spread faster when baked.
You may have under measured the flour a bit – add more if needed – the dough should not be sticky or soft but not so crumbly that you can’t form it into a ball.
Lastly, do not put cookie dough on a warm cookie sheet – make sure that the cookie sheet has cooled or use a new one for the second batch. With all this said, the flavor of the cookies will not change even if the cookies spread! I make these all the time and they don’t flatten out on me, but I follow all the tips above to prevent flat cookies.
Cookies will last 3-4 days, covered, at room temperature. Cookies and cookie dough can be frozen for up to 3 months. No need to thaw frozen cookie dough before baking. However, they may take an additional 1-2 minutes to bake.
This recipe makes about 22 cookies, give or take depending on how you measured the dough.
This recipe has been updated September of 2025.
I made these cookies for work and was told numerous times that these cookies were the best that the person has ever had. I froze the dough balls overnight in my deep freezer and popped them in the oven straight from the freezer.
wonderful!!
I made these cookies and they are incredible!! Do you happen to know any of the nutritional info, it says there are 18-20 servings but how many calories per serving?
I am not sure unfortunately. Im sure you could enter the ingredients into a free nutritional website and find out.
This is my go-to cookie recipe!! Obsessed!! Tonight I’m adding in some sea salt caramel chips 😍😍😍
YUM! Love caramel chips!
The only complaint I have so far is that the first instruction is to preheat the oven……..uhhhhh I’m not leaving my oven preheated for 3+ hours?! ….just putting the dough in the fridge now it looks like they will be amazing!!!
It says preheat “when you are ready to bake.”
thank you, Jen!
I tried your recipe for Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies last night and brought them to work. Everyone loved them! I followed your recipe and instructions and tips exactly.
I have a website where I post all my favorite recipes and my friends, family and coworkers go there when they want to make something they taste tested for me. May I post your recipe on my site? I will make sure that I give you the credit and add a link to yours.
Thanks!
So glad they liked them! you are more than welcome to share the cookies, but not the recipe. You can however, have a link on your website to the recipe on my blog. Thanks!
Hello. I followed this recipe and all your tips to a tee! I baked them and at 6 mins in they were starting to burn. The bottoms are burnt but tops are perfect. Any suggestions?
Hi Maggie! There are a few things that it could be…your pans might be old. I have some really old baking pans and I use them mostly to roast veggies on or chicken on. Every time I baked cookies on them, the bottoms burnt so I bought new ones and they didn’t burn any more. Also, I would try moving your oven rack. Your oven may get hotter in different areas – my cookies tend to brown on the bottom more in the bottom half of my oven. Hope this helps!
Hi! I can’t wait to make these. I’m kind of in a rush with making them so I was wondering how long you would suggest I put the dough in the freezer for as opposed to the fridge just to speed up the time with chilling the dough? Thanks!
Sure! 20 minutes or so!
Hi! Does it matter if it’s dark brown sugar or light brown? Going to make these tonight and want to make sure I get it right!
Thanks 🙂
Lindsay
nope it doesn’t! dark brown sugar has more molasses in it and is richer in taste, but it shouldn’t effect the cookie that much.
Hi
I am not american so i need some help with the butter please. If you can tell me in grams it would be very helpful. Thank you. Our butter stick is 100 gr.
From what I googled it looks like 1/2 cup of butter is 113 grams so 1 cup of butter is 226 grams.
they were fantastic. these are my go to cookies never will i make any other then this one
Thank you! So glad you liked them!
Do you measure your ingredients or weigh them? I am always at such a loss when it comes to this. If you measure your flour (instead of weighing it) do you spoon the flour into the measuring cup or just scoop your up right into the container of flour? These look fantastic and I cant wait to try them.
I usually measure using a spoon. I don’t weigh my ingredients. I also go by how the dough looks and tastes.